The Russellville Democrat., 1887-08-24
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Correspondence Or the Democrat
RUssELLvILLE, Ark, Aug. ID
Your correspondent and his wife left
this place on the 10th Of July to Wis.
il in the counties Of White, Lonoke,
Faulkner and Conway. and the same
day we left here we went to Morril-
ton where we met several friends
among them r. 5. Truitt Of this
place who has the contract to build
4 brick store house sor Hartford 4
Co. And at this place we learned
OF the death of James Gordon and
Mrs. Conlee the widow Of O. Conlee
and the mother OF Mrs. Cotton Of
Dardanelle. At one time 0. Conlee
lived in Pope county, and at that
time Mr.. aud Mrs. Conlee had seven
in family, the father and mother,
two daughters and three sons, and
there is but the two daughters now
living. On Thursday morning we
left Morrilton in company with Col.
A. Gordon, went in northeast di-
rection in search of the place where
there were to be an old primitive
baptist Association" held, and
when we arrived at Springfield. in
Conway county, we went to the hotel
kept by that excellent lady, Mrs.
Cargell, where we did our part at
the table as her guests. Springfield
has several stores and from the ap-
pearance is making some improve
ment and seems to be prosperous, and
while here we learned that the old
court house had been fitted up for q
school building, and from all appear
ances it is an excellent building, and
one suitable for the purpose for
which it is used. After dinner we
left Springfield and travelled six
miles and came to place called the
"Cove where we found one store and
the chief clerk is r. +. Williamson,
brother Of our fellow townsman, A.
B. Williamson, he looks well and
said that he had been there some
and did not know how long he would
stay there. After short rest at
this place VIC pursued our journey
and at shutdown we put up for the
night with Mr.. Waddell, Van Buren,,
Co., where we Jared we'll both man
and beast.
On Friday morning we arrived at
Salem church and found many Of the
old Baptist there in readiness for
the Association at which place your
correspondent made many acquaint-
ences and met many pleasant faces,
and during the three days that we
spent at that place we were treated
very kind and had a pleasant time.
On Sunday evening we took leave
of our new made friends (for we can
call them friends) and took our
journey in the direction OF Cabot and
reached that place on Monday even
ing. Cabot is small town on the
Iron Mountain r. R., and from APP
pearance is doing good business.
Next we went to Beebe, another town
on the same road. Beebe is town
of some note, claims to have 1900 in.
habitants, and here / made the &C.
quaintance of Sam Crabtree, the
editor of the Hub. After short
stay in Lonoke, White and Faulkner
counties we took leave of our friends
and started for Russellvi!Ie and ar
rived here on Friday evening Aug.
18th.
On our trip we saw some good
crops and some bad. Between this
place and Morrilton crops are about
an average of what we saw. Between
Springfield In Conway county and
Van Buren, county is fine upland
country and there we saw the finest
crops that we saw on our trip, that
portion of country has not suffered
for RAIN, but after VIC left Van Buren,
county, we passed through noun
famous country which is called the
Cadron hills and In crossing these
hills we passed by the famous Pint
cal Springs and in this portion of
the country crops are spotted, some
some good, some bad and some will
not make more than one fourth of a
crop, but the worst crops that we
saw was In White and Lonoke coun-
ties which upon an average will not
make half crop. In Faulkner CO.,
we saw some good crops and some
bad, upon an average there will be
more than half crop. As to sick
ness we found Lonoke county the
worst but found more sickness in all
the counties that we were in than
there is in this Pope) county.
G.. w. BERGMAN.
To School Directors of Pope
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